Sample Sentences for
beckon
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    Love's arms beckon With their naked delights, And Eden's promise of ecstasies.  (source)
    beckon = call (figuratively by being desirable)
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    She could hear her voice, and the voice of another, and then saw a hand extended from within a stall to beckon Celaena inside.  (source)
    beckon = call (to come by using a hand gesture)
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    The ladies of the night beckon to anyone passing, their eyes like fading coals.  (source)
    beckon = call
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    Then she lowered the megaphone and beckoned Harry over to her.  (source)
    beckoned = called -- typically to come nearer by using a hand gesture or a nod
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    "Lily," Mother said, beckoning to the little girl, "Go on now and get into your nightclothes."  (source)
    beckoning = signaling (by using a hand gesture or a nod)
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    Even though the rest of the meal beckons, I ignore it until I've drained my cup.  (source)
    beckons = calls (figuratively by being desirable)
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    We try to make jokes and they answer with things we cannot understand; we laugh and beckon.  (source)
    beckon = call (to come nearer by using a hand gesture or a nod)
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    CROMWELL walks aside with furtive and urgent beckonings to STEWARD to follow.  (source)
    beckonings = calls
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    Charles Wallace walked through it, beckoned to Meg and Calvin, and they followed.  (source)
    beckoned = called (to follow by using a hand gesture or a nod)
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    I moved faster when I saw Jem far ahead beckoning in the moonlight.  (source)
    beckoning = called (to come by using a hand gesture or a nod)
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    When Christina catches my eye, she beckons to me, smiling, so my mother and I cross the Pit floor.  (source)
    beckons = calls (to come nearer by using a hand gesture or a nod)
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    So peremptorily did these shades beckon him, that each day mankind and the claims of mankind slipped farther from him.  (source)
    beckon = call
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    Yet already signals begin, beckonings, attempts to lure me back.  (source)
    beckonings = calls
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She beckoned with her fork to the woods.  (source)
beckoned = pointed
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